In an expanding universe, Spencer had said, order was not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.
Kim Stanley RobinsonIt was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.
Kim Stanley RobinsonAnd so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or when you look up in the sky and are surprised at the sight of bright Jupiter between clouds, and everything suddenly seems stuffed with a vast significance-consider that some other person somewhere is entangled with you in time, and is trying to give some push to the situation, some little help to make things better. Then put your shoulder to whatever wheel you have at hand, whatever moment you're in, and push too! Push like Galileo pushed! And together we may crab sideways toward the good.
Kim Stanley RobinsonYou can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThey were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.
Kim Stanley RobinsonMots clés politics
That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Kim Stanley RobinsonMots clés libertarianism
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
Kim Stanley RobinsonMots clés science scientists
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.
Kim Stanley RobinsonLanguage is nothing but a huge set of false analogies
Kim Stanley RobinsonIt is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person
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